The people in and around houston who again find themselves dealing with serious damages due to flooding. May they and those many First Responders be safe as they begin the recovery of their community. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. Madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on the approval of the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor please say aye. Opposed, no. The ayes have it. The journal stands approved. Mr. Blumenauer madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon further seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer i object to the vote on the grounds that a q
Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many
Quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from mississippi. A senator may i request, are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Wicker i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Wicker mr. President and my fellow colleagues, i once again come to the floor to talk about alzheimers and the efforts being made in this country and in this senate and in this city to find a cure and to find better treatments for the scourge of alzheimers. As many of you know, this is the most expensive disease our country has ever seen. Half a trillion dollars a year in costs to programs that we need to protect, like medicare and medicaid. This will rise to a trillion dollars per year in the lifetime of many people within the sound of my voice unless something is done. I am so appreciative of the some 1,200 people who descended on washington this week advocating on behalf of the millions of americans liv
Suppliers and manufacturers have recognized the challenge we face for this century, literally this weapons platform will be critical to our national defense. We we can look back and draw lessons and we should from the challenges that cause that improvement to take place. Maybe even the overall conceptual framework as you suggested should there have been more individualization of the platform for different services. But i can well recall that the conventional wisdom not so long ago was the services should get together and collaborate and the by a single fighter and that was the wisdom does your of contracting in its day. Now maybe lessons point in different directions. I hope we will learn lessons from this experience but there has to be a recognition that this weapon platform will do things that no fighter engine or platform has done in the past, would you agree doctor fillmore . The investment ranking is large and the need that we have is large to deal with the threats that currently
Dwight d. Eyisenhower as a military man and president. For a complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Business owners, policy writers, and an accountant testify before the Senate Finance committee on the future of u. S. Business tax law. They talked about the latest research into ways United States tax law could be changed to be more competitive in the Global Economy. This is just over an hour 45 minutes. Good morning. Its a pleasure to welcome everyone to todays hearing, which weve entitled navigating Business Tax Reform. Its a big title. I think this title accurately describes the challenges we have before us. Moving forward on Business Tax Reform specifically and on comprehensive tax reform more generally. In the recent past identifying and developing certain bipartisan policy proposals and moving them through the legislative process has proven especially difficult. But im an optimist, and i believe we can and should find Common Ground on a path forward for comprehensive tax reform. Of c